The Collection has accumulated a small but representative collection of Southern and Civil War art. The Civil War artists represented include Edwin Forbes and Allen C. Redwood. The collection holds a number of works by noted African-American and Charleston artist Edwin A. Harleston (1882-1931), several works by Alabama artist Maria Howard Weeden (1847-1905), and a single work by John Roderick Dempster MacKenzie (1865-1941).